“You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.” NeedsMadeStillsBookSoulProgressWrittenMoralityEthicsDevilAbsolutesMajorityAncientGuidesIgnorantRationalCodeDamnNomadMorality And Ethics Author:Doug Graham
“What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?” ThinkingWantNeedsLooksWealthAbsolutesRationalHints Author:J. G. Holland
“It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'” WorldNeedsHumansPrinciplesThis WorldAbsolutesUnityAriseRationalAbsurdReasonableAppetiteImpossibilityReducingUnderstand MeHuman NeedsHuman Thought Author:Albert Camus
“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.” WorldHumansPurposeCertainSocialNaturalHuman BeingsKnownMoralParticularPerspectiveDisciplineMoralityClaimsAbsolutesCreatorRationalServingHorizonRegimesNatural WorldSocial LifeUniversality Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?” KnowsWorldHumansMeanI CanTwoLyingTermPrinciplesConditionsThis WorldLimitsAbsolutesUnityRationalCertaintyReasonableAppetiteImpossibilityReducingReconcileSisyphusMyth Of Sisyphus Author:Albert Camus
“Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth” MenMindPersonsEarthJoyValuesFightingKnowingVirtuePrideMoralityBattleGoodnessAchievementEssenceAbsolutesRationalCertaintySovereignGrandeurRadiantRectitude Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.” ThinkingLoveWisdomRealityLightSpiritMeditationProductsYogaAbsolutesRationalWellnessLinear Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious.” HumansRealInspirationUniverseBeliefProcessNaturalReligiousResponsibilityMoralProgressAtheismDivineAuthorityAbsolutesUnityCreatorImprovementRationalRevelationsBarriersIntroducingRulersSplitsCommandmentsValidityGraspingFormidableCertitudeDivine InspirationIrreparable Author:Julian Huxley
“And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.” PeopleIfsMeanMadeCountryAmericaLawDutyWeakAbsolutesInstrumentsSakeSupremeRationalMinistersWickedInstructionGovernorsColonyDuty To God Author:Samuel Adams